V21 at NAVSA: 2nd annual social hour and panels, panels!

This year’s NAVSA theme is “Social Victorians,” and V21 honors the theme in both scholarly presentations and collective sociality. We welcome all NAVSA-goers and Phoenix-region friends and foes to join us for the 2nd annual V21 @ NAVSA Social Hour on Friday November 4th, 9pm-11pm at Hanny’s Bar & Restaurant, a couple of blocks from the conference hotel. Come debate our special issue of boundary2, and participate in panels featuring V21 affiliates! *NB one panel, “Rethinking Ideology” shares a common text by Raymond Williams; email v21collective at gmail if you’d like a copy.

Session 1, Panel I — Social Failures in Dickens
Matthew Price (Pennsylvania State University) “When Bad Men do Nothing: Dickens’s
Inactive Actors”
Mary L. Mullen (Villanova University) “Origin Stories: The Problem of Biddy’s Relations in
Great Expectations”
Darby Walters (University of Southern California) “‘Mists and Shadows of the Past’:
Miasma and Memory in David Copperfield”
Joshua Gooch (D’Youville College) “Character as Discipline: Great Expectations and the
Volunteer Militia”

Session 2, Panel I — Social Genres
Justin Sider (United States Military Academy, West Point) “Aesthetic Categories and the
Social Life of Genre in Victorian Criticism”
Elliot, Amy (Purdue University) “Novels in Verse: Resisting Closure and Narrative Realism
in Clough’s Amours de Voyage”
Alicia Williams (Rutgers University) “Amoral Sociability and the Frame Narrative in the
Nineteenth-Century Novel”
Jonathan Farina (Seton Hall University) “Agnosticism and Sociality: Victorian Critics on
Skeptical Fictions”